A list of all of Doc Werlin’s writings pertaining to religion.
Introduction For several years I have taken courses online through thegreatcourses.com and also on their app. The Great Courses provides access to highly acclaimed teachers on video. The current course that I am attending [...]
Introduction After reading The Washing War: FDR’s Inner Circle by James Lacey I feel there is sufficient explicit and implicit facts to charge key State Department and Army officials that they “acquiesced in the Murder [...]
Introduction Recent tensions involving Iran have placed the Kurdish population of the Middle East in a complicated position. Many Kurds have long sought an independent nation, commonly referred to as Kurdistan. However, independence for [...]
Introduction After reading The Washing War: FDR’s Inner Circle by James Lacey I feel there is sufficient explicit and implicit facts to charge key State Department and Army officials that they “acquiesced in the Murder [...]
Over the past 20 years, Pew Research has conducted surveys of Americans observance of religion. After many years of steady decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christian shows signs of leveling off [...]
“When systems fail, whether it’s the government or the markets or anything else, leaders often look for someone to blame. Jews have historically played that role.” --Jonathan Greenblatt, Chief Executive of the Anti-Defamation League Today’s [...]
I saw tonight a documentary, Into the Arms of Strangers. It focuses on the lives of 10,000 primarily Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Free City of Danzig who found refuge [...]
Hundreds (sadly not thousands) of French Jews and their supporters in Paris called for justice for murdered Jewish woman, Sarah Hallimi, a retired physician and schoolteacher. In an astonishing decision, the court of appeal [...]
Introduction At some level I have been aware of the Protocols of Zion as early as my teenage years. That is, I knew that this fabricated text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for [...]
Introduction After reading The Washing War: FDR’s Inner Circle by James Lacey I feel there is sufficient explicit and implicit facts to charge key State Department and Army officials that they “acquiesced in the Murder [...]
The Economist reported a positive development in Morocco. In the little seaside town of Essaouira, in Morocco. Rabbis and cantors wish Muslims “Shabbat Shalom.” The Kingdom has made extensive effort to reach out to Jews [...]
Introduction John XXIII introduced a turning point in history and initiated important reforms for the Church. He was a conservative that sought to cure the Church because it needed radical surgery. Under his leadership, the [...]
Today’s New York Times the article highlighted the fate of books stolen by the Nazis. Tens of millions of books were taken from the Rothschilds, other prominent Jewish families, and Jewish Academic organizations Strangely [...]
In America, does More Education Equal Less Religion? Overall, U.S. adults with college degrees are less religious than others, but this pattern does not hold among Christians Pew Research Center Survey showed the relationship [...]
I recently returned from Portugal where I met with two important people in the Portuguese Jewish Community. (Jose Carp who headed the Portuguese Jewish Community for 14 years and Hugo Vaz, a Portuguese Jewish historian. IntroductionAlthough [...]
David Kertzer, a finalist for the National Book Award and professor of history at Brown University, provided a groundbreaking work on the relationship between Pope Pius XI and the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. It gave [...]
Unfortunately, I have only seen scattering comments that refer to some concern on Rebecca Werlin’s part regarding the religious affiliation of Israel. Further, I understand that Rebecca feels that a theological state might not [...]
Request: To Katy White: I am writing this essay given your interest in the issue of historic anti-Semitism by the Catholic Church. I request that this essay not be sent to anyone. My reasons [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to Scott Say, the author of Getting Our Groove Back. Mr. Shay articulated rationally the dramatic decline in the number of Jews in America, the negative [...]
About a decade ago, I was intrigued by the prospect of somebody writing a play about Truman’s decision to recognize Israel. Over the years, I have reflected repeatedly about the strange sequence of events [...]
The Children’s Crusade is one of the more unusual and disturbing events in the Medieval Ages. We know only scanty facts about the sad episode; however, thousands of children died during their journey to [...]
In 1858,the Lady of Lourdes made a promise to Bernadette Castesterot “I do not promise to make you happy in this world, but in the next”. Several years ago, a good friend of mine, a [...]
